What Culture Pirates Means to Me
The Cycle
The
items in the first characters mouth represent consumption. Left
simplistic, leaving room for interpretation as to what consumption
means to you. With so many items being consumed at once, the
character’s jaw is broken and the face disfigured. The tear of blood
represents, the spikes of cancer rates, obesity, asthma, disease
overall, pollution, the displacement of millions of people in order to
build dams, wars, extinction. With all that, in pain, the character
gives all its got, straining everything to the tip of its tongue,
to hold on to every last bit of all that is to be consumed.
The
Spanish term 'Comiendo El Cerebro' literally translates to brain eating
but, actually means brainwashing. The second character is bitting into
the first character’s head. This character represents the store owner,
the dealer who feels they are running things but, doesn’t realize its
brain is being eaten by the third character. The third character
represents the distributor of products to be consumed. The last
character can be seen as the one who really has it on lock. Symbolic to
the corporate giants, the monopoly owners, the financial institutions
that trade and drain resources, who start wars, destroy culture and 'inconvenient knowledge', the ones who create mass hysteria, conduct
social experiments, claim ownership and commodify all forms of life.
The Teeth
From
the first charcter to the last, the teeth progressivly become more
jagged. The last characters teeth are shaped like muscular human arms
to represent a more dynamic psychological grip. Symbolizing the
remarkably extensive research and manipulation of the masses, that
usually goes unnoticed by the people it targets.
The Masks
All but the first character are wearing masks. The masks look like
demons, the conventional symbol of evil. The second demon, more
aggressive then the other two represents the “to right to be wrong”.
Some of the educated, the professionals, the influentials, the elders,
religious leaders, the ones who feel they have a true understanding of
whats going on, with little tolerance for anything that questions what
is established, not realizing the last demon is eating from all of the
characters in this picture. This devil looks more calm then the rest,
with true understanding. Influenced the past and working on forcibly
molding the future, all in the name of…
The masks represent
deception. Selling you expired food, industry byproducts, understudied
devices made to fall apart, faulty software applications, the 'War On Drugs', the invention of ADHD, the so called advancements in medicine
and technology conveniently loaded with side affects, the selling of
dreams to the youth to die at war or go mostly unattended when they
need help in the very country they fought for, the public relation
donations, the deceptive cartoon icons, the eco-deadly greenwashing
movement, the faith based past and present justification of atrocities,
the elitist non profits, the superficial tycoon philanthropy.
Empower the few, distract, enslave and slowly destroy the many.
The markings on the last character
'Desde El Comienzo, Hasta La Muerte , Comiéndote El Cerebro'
In : Art
Tags: roberto enamorado redforyou culture pirates destroy babylon illustration artwork art
Called an idealist,
for one so cynical,
turned realist,
by the pseudo-empirical.
Because “Power To The People” hasn’t been stressed enough, and there
is no single unifying idea which could describe the thoughts behind
Roberto Enamorado, here goes a brief and objective bio.
An unusual kid, one who was street smart without being from the
streets, A native New Yorker, who had always lived in a desirable zip
code, which sharply contrasted with the visits to his parents native
home in Honduras, Central America; Roberto knew the path often avoided, because
out of curiosity, that path had been explored.
One could wonder where Roberto’s thoughts of empowerment originated.
Perhaps it was the early love for subculture, the beginning of which
could be traced to the 6th grade, where he was one of the few kids who
when asked about his favorite type of music, responded with I like
“house music.”
The interest in subcultures would continue. In the mid 90’s, it was
the non commercial hip hop which caught his attention. Electronica
followed and finally a taste for the eclectic was firmly established.
All of the music, the clothing, the idea behind the image carried out
the same message. There is a different world out there, and this
world, corporations can’t seem to quite grasp.
Then there were the comic books, a world of their own, bloody,
violent, exaggerated anarchical and fantastical. And from these comics
grew personal art, curious art, a drawing of Disney’s Thumper,
superheroes, Graffiti and finally an individual style, art which is
marketable, but with a distinct air of not being for sale.
